Slovakia

Redesigned Packaging Act No. 119/2010 Coll. became effective as of May 1, 2010. Among other things the definition of obliged industry has been amended in the Act. Based on the Packaging Act, an obliged person is obliged to meet its regulatory duties under the Packaging Act, mainly to ensure packaging waste collection, recovery and recycling at least in the extent of the binding recovery and recycling limits. The packaging Act enables any obliged person to meet its duties via a so-called authorized organization.

Packaging Waste Law, May 2010

The Slovak government is preparing the new Packaging Act, which would become effective from summer 2014.

Definite targets to 2020 - recover and recycle 50 % household waste

Definite responsibility lies with obliged industry – entrepreneur and a legal entity who packs or fills its products in packaging, introduces packed products into market, introduces packages into market with the exception of packaging producers and importers, who supply empty unused packages to obliged industry.